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Takeaway mixers for busmen

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  • #52
    Flyingsnowball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 391 ✭✭Flyingsnowball


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    That's a shame. I know a man who could have fixed it for you. His usual occupation is airline pilot, but he does a bit of car mechanic stuff out the back.

    Out the back of his airplane?


  • #53
    Dakotabigone
    Site Banned Posts: 512 ✭✭✭Dakotabigone


    Only a fool is 100% tax compliant.


  • #54
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,413 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Flyingsnowball wrote: »
    Out the back of his airplane?

    He doesn't own the aeroplanes.


  • #55
    Flyingsnowball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 391 ✭✭Flyingsnowball


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    He doesn't own the aeroplanes.

    He is doing car nixers out the back of his bosses airplane?

    You must think I was born yesterday.


  • #56
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Only if your bus driver friend delivers the takeaways in the bus.
    Flyingsnowball wrote: »
    Out the back of his airplane?


  • #57
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    What's a busmen


  • #58
    Flyingsnowball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 391 ✭✭Flyingsnowball


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    What's a busmen

    A collective of busmans.

    Known as a union of busmen because whenever you see more than two of them together they are on strike demanding outrageous wages spinning around the fecal merry go round.
    Huge spinning toilet.


  • #59
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Flyingsnowball wrote: »
    A collective of busmans.

    Known as a union of busmen because whenever you see more than two of them together they are on strike demanding outrageous wages spinning around the fecal merry go round.
    Huge spinning toilet.

    Ah great ..... They are a great bunch of lads


  • #60
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    are there not max driving limits imposed on commercial and bus drivers? So this guy is clearly putting everyone in danger by being behind the wheel far longer than is safe, never mind scamming the revenue.

    I work as a bus driver and - for safety reasons - I am contractually forbidden from doing any paid work elsewhere. Driving a 12 metre-long vehicle for 10 hours a day is tiring enough already.


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  • #61
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Flyingsnowball wrote: »
    ...demanding outrageous wages spinning around the fecal merry go round.
    Huge spinning toilet.


    Here we go again...….rinse and repeat.

    🚽


  • #62
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    Flyingsnowball wrote:
    You must think I was born yesterday.


    Considering some of your threads I'm guessing 12 years ago.


  • #63
    Dakotabigone
    Site Banned Posts: 512 ✭✭✭Dakotabigone


    Op got served.


  • #64
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Busmen do it on your doorstep.....


  • #65
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    The best thing about having pizza delivered by a bus driver is that after waiting ages for it, three will come at once.


  • #66
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    One polling the other....


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  • #67
    Flyingsnowball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 391 ✭✭Flyingsnowball


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    One polling the other....

    Polling? Like when the have a poll on whether to accept this years pay agreement?


  • #68
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Flyingsnowball wrote: »
    Polling? Like when the have a poll on whether to accept this years pay agreement?

    1does all the work while the other comes up the rear.


  • #69
    Flyingsnowball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 391 ✭✭Flyingsnowball


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    1does all the work while the other comes up the rear.

    Should probably end the thread there.


  • #70
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Flyingsnowball wrote: »
    Should probably end the thread there.

    69 posts too late, unfortunately; now the momentum takes over.


  • #71
    Flyingsnowball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 391 ✭✭Flyingsnowball


    Troy Slow Swindler wrote: »
    69 posts too late, unfortunately; now the momentum takes over.

    Momentum, coming up the rear, fecal merry go round?
    What’s up with you guys?


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  • #72
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Flyingsnowball wrote: »
    Momentum, coming up the rear, fecal merry go round?
    What’s up with you guys?

    We're, mostly, sober.


  • #73
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Troy Slow Swindler wrote: »
    We're, mostly, sober.

    I'm not


  • #74
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    The busmen took me against my will and wouldn't let me off at me stop.

    It's a fooking disgrace joe


  • #75
    Flyingsnowball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 391 ✭✭Flyingsnowball


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    The busmen took me against my will and wouldn't let me off at me stop.

    It's a fooking disgrace joe

    This actually happened me when I was a school kid. Some kids were ringing the bell over and over again and he drove straight past the stop to the next one. Supposedly it was their way of reacting when the new bells came in at the time. Union told them how to react to it. This was told to me by a barstool historian though so I’d take it with a pinch of salt.


  • #76
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,413 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Flyingsnowball wrote: »
    This actually happened me when I was a school kid. Some kids were ringing the bell over and over again and he drove straight past the stop to the next one. Supposedly it was their way of reacting when the new bells came in at the time. Union told them how to react to it. This was told to me by a barstool historian though so I’d take it with a pinch of salt.

    I take all your stories with a pinch of salt.


  • #77
    Flyingsnowball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 391 ✭✭Flyingsnowball


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    I take all your stories with a pinch of salt.

    Says the fella who claimed his pilot friend fixes cars in his bosses airplanes.


  • #78
    Reviews and Books Galore
    Closed Accounts Posts: 964 ✭✭✭Reviews and Books Galore


    zapitastas wrote: »
    The bigger issue are the fat lazy people ordering take aways and can't even be bothered to leave the house to get them. Might be a market there for a motorised sofa that could bring the person out to the front door to collect the food

    Love walking to the takeaway. Like I'm hunting and killing the curry cheese chip with my bare hands.


  • #79
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,522 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Ayden Cool Utensil wrote: »
    The limits are only for commercial driving of certain vehicles, they can only drive their truck/bus for a certain number of hours today but they could drive 12 hours straight in their private car and start straight into a shift in the truck/bus after.

    The person the op is taking about would be doing this all under the table so it doesn’t count. In any case driving a car commercially doesn’t count either, for instance delivery drivers (dhl etc) don’t have driving limits nor do sales reps etc.

    I know it doesn't count but the limits are there for a reason. Driving for longer periods is tiring and if you're tired you put other on the road / the passengers on the bus at risk.
    You think it's ok that someone does a shift driving a bus for 8-10+ hours, goes home, drivers for takeaways for another 4 hours or so, gets only 6-7 hours rest and is back driving a bus the next day?

    Edit:
    point proven...
    Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »
    I work as a bus driver and - for safety reasons - I am contractually forbidden from doing any paid work elsewhere. Driving a 12 metre-long vehicle for 10 hours a day is tiring enough already.


  • #80
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,413 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Flyingsnowball wrote: »
    Says the fella who claimed his pilot friend fixes cars in his bosses airplanes.

    He gave me some biscuits to say it.


  • #81
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 24,714 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    I know it doesn't count but the limits are there for a reason. Driving for longer periods is tiring and if you're tired you put other on the road / the passengers on the bus at risk.
    You think it's ok that someone does a shift driving a bus for 8-10+ hours, goes home, drivers for takeaways for another 4 hours or so, gets only 6-7 hours rest and is back driving a bus the next day?

    Edit:
    point proven...

    Is it any more dangerous than working all day and doing a long drive after it home? Also they aren’t allowed to drive a bus for 10 hours a day but you can drive 2 hours to work, work a 12 hour day and drive home for 2 hours completely legally.


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  • #82
    Flyingsnowball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 391 ✭✭Flyingsnowball


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    He gave me some biscuits to say it.

    Hope you declared them to revenue.


  • #83
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    After hours is really letting me down.


  • #84
    davidk1394
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,179 ✭✭✭davidk1394


    Dakotabigone wrote: »
    Only a fool is 100% tax compliant.

    Cash is king and that’s the way it should stay. Bitta extra cash under the table is nice, every now and then. Can’t understand the reason this thread was started


  • #85
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    davidk1394 wrote:
    Can’t understand the reason this thread was started


    OP finished his homework early....


  • #86
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    After hours is really letting me down.

    You can only work with the material available to you.


  • #87
    cursai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,915 ✭✭✭cursai


    Why's he putting an attic conversion in the bus. Is a double decker not got enough space?


  • #88
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,656 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    cursai wrote: »
    Why's he putting an attic conversion in the bus. Is a double decker not got enough space?

    He can carry more passengers who pay cash in hand.


  • #89
    Flyingsnowball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 391 ✭✭Flyingsnowball


    Alf Veedersane wrote: »
    He can carry more passengers who pay cash in hand.

    That’s a bit of a leap


  • #90
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,656 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    Flyingsnowball wrote: »
    That’s a bit of a leap

    There'll be a ladder.


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  • #91
    El Tarangu
    Registered Users Posts: 1,620 ✭✭✭El Tarangu


    Flyingsnowball wrote: »
    ... This isn’t some poor unfortunate on the dole and fixing his neighbors toilet for a few cans.


    TIL that if you want some odd jobs done around the house, don't bother paying money for it - just lure some dolehead to your house on the promise of a few tins of Galahad.


  • #92
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    The chap would be paying 40% tax on his hard work. An attic costs around 10k. So if he is payed €10 an hour for 4hrs x 5 days per week, it would take 50 weeks to get the attic. Pay 40% Paye + USC + PRSI etc and you're going closer to 2 years.


  • #93
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    Flyingsnowball wrote: »
    They are not declaring 50 euro a night or so in taxes because they have already hit their tax credits. 3 of them on a takeaway. A takeaway on nearly every street corner in Ireland.

    That could pay for the hospital.

    This isn’t some poor unfortunate on the dole and fixing his neighbors toilet for a few cans.

    How much do you think takeaway drivers are making?? :eek::eek:


  • #94
    piplip87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,149 ✭✭✭piplip87


    Fair play to him. He is been fleeced for the Bus driving job. A few quid under the table is always welcome.

    Yet if revenue caught onto his he would be up to his balls in fines and penalties.


    Yet there's people doing deliveries 5 nights a week maybe making 60 or 70 quid profit a night still lining up down the post office on a Monday morning. If there caught a it's awww I can only pay back a eirona week


  • #95
    Flyingsnowball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 391 ✭✭Flyingsnowball


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    How much do you think takeaway drivers are making?? :eek::eek:

    About 100 a night plus tips


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